Cataclysm Mount Guide: Lions, Drakes and Camels, Oh My!

Heads up collectors! As I'm sure you've already noticed, the Cataclysm expansion added tons of awesome stuff to the World of Warcraft - including many new riding mounts available to fill your stables! Even if you've already got a Не имей 100 рублей, а имей 100 коней, there's bound to be something you'll like in the 20+ mounts added with this latest expansion!

I've written up a guide for you guys on how to find, earn or otherwise acquire all of the new Cataclysm mounts! I mean, c'mon, look at some of these mounts - you know you want 'em!

Check out the fully detailed guide, including a list of all of the new mounts and detailed information on how to get them, after the break!

These bad boys are pretty awesome, but you're in for a hell of a grind - obtaining your faction's mount will require your guild to reach level 25, which is the maximum level at this time. In addition, a player must first be Exalted with their guild before being allowed to purchase the mount. You can find out more on guild leveling and reputation gain in our Cataclysm Guide.

Many players assume guild leveling to be easy, as guilds are easily reaching their daily cap in a matter of hours due to the current abundance of players leveling up new characters and completing quests and killing bosses. While many guilds may continue to hit their experience cap over the course of the next few months, it's important to note that the experience required for guild levels does increase with every level. The math being done suggests that it will take 137 days (or 4.5 months) of hitting your guild's daily experience cap in order to reach guild level 25! Grind, baby, grind!

This awesome drake is rewarded upon completing the new Cataclysm Heroic dungeon achievement, Слава герою Cataclysm, which requires you not only to complete every Heroic dungeon at least once (for Покоритель подземелий Cataclysm) but to complete a number of challenging achievements in those Heroics.

This one will prove to be a challenge! Слава рейдеру Cataclysm requires you to clear all of Blackwing Descent, Throne of the Four Winds and The Bastion of Twilight, completing various achievements along the way and also requires a defeat of each boss on its Heroic difficulty mode as well! Yikes. Good luck!

This amazing new mount requires completion of the guild achievement Слава рейдеру Cataclysm (гильдия), which requires you to clear Blackwing Descent, Throne of the Four Winds and The Bastion of Twilight while in a guild group. In order to qualify and receive credit for these objectives, your raid must be comprised of at least 8/10 or 20/25 guild members. You can tell that you are in a group that qualifies for guild achievements by checking for your guild tabard up near your minimap. Upon completion the achievement, you will be able to purchase this mount from your faction's guild vendor.

I'm not gonna lie - this bad boy seems a lot easier to get that the aforementioned Дракон восточного ветра, and is even (technically) easier to get than his cousin the Ashes of A'lar, since it does not require any special achievements or even the Heroic difficulty modes of the bosses. However, it will prove to be challenging for players without a guild, so get out and meet some people!

Archaeology

This awesome skeletal raptor mount is available to talented archaeologists who are lucky enough to find fragments of Ископаемый ящер! Upon surveying at a fossil digsite, you have a chance to randomly discover this rare artifact and must collect enough Фрагмент окаменелости (100) to complete the project. Upon assembling the project you will create a Ископаемый ящер!

This guy is a little tougher to acquire, as he can only be found as a rare spawn in Подземье. Judging from Wowhead comments, Aeonaxx spawns near the Quartzite Basin and will fly to and around the Temple of Earth. If you are lucky enough to find him, you must mount him and kill him before getting overwhelmed by his whelpling adds! If you are successful, enjoy your mount! Check out Aeonaxx's page for more comments and tracking information!

Too good for the Рамкахены camels? Yeah, I knew you were. True camel connoisseurs may want to try their luck at obtaining this classy fellow (well, other than the spitting) by seeking out Странная фигурка верблюда, small statues found hidden in the sands of Ульдум. Some of these statues are too damaged and will crumble into dust, but if you find the right one, prepare to get whisked away to Дымящиеся озера above Фералас, where you must defeat Дормус Погонщик верблюдов!

Reputation

This camel mount is one of two that will become available to be purchased from Кузнец Абаси once Exalted with the Рамкахены. You can earn reputation with Рамкахены by completing quests in Ульдум, wearing the Гербовая накидка рамкахенов in level 85 dungeons, and by completing the single daily quest offered by the faction. Buying one of these mounts will even earn you an achievement, Один горб – хорошо!! Strangely, these mounts will not show up on the vendor until you have reached Exalted - maybe this was intentional by Blizzard as a surprise, and I ruined it. Oh. :(

The new Картель Трюмных Вод faction mount is available to goblins by default and every other Horde race upon reaching Exalted with the Cartel. Horde players can use the Гербовая накидка картеля Трюмных Вод to earn reputation in certain dungeons towards this goal (see reputation gain clarification). I swear if you guys turn this into another one of those "ZOMG x faction has more mounts so unfair!!11" flamefests, I will turn this guide right around...

Miscellaneous

This BOE mount can only be crafted by a skilled Alchemist upon learning the pattern, which can be found inside a Канопа

Flying passenger shapeshift

Ah, the thing which every alchemist's dreams are made of. And man, is he gonna cost you. So how to get it? First, you have to be an archaeologist and you have to get lucky and find fragments of a Канопа. Upon collecting the appropriate amount of Фрагмент артефакта тол'виров you will be able to complete the jar, and then open it. If you're lucky (again) it will contain a Рецепт: фиал песков, which can be learned with 525 Alchemy skill. Once you've learned to craft it, you then need to acquire the (costly) reagents. This is one of the most expensive items to craft, requiring vendor items totaling and a number of flasks and other alchemy created materials. Fortunately Blizzard just recently changed it from BoP to BoE! Check out this detailed breakdown of the total reagent requirements posted by Wowhead user abinning! And cry.

This guy is almost a necessity for questing, gathering or otherwise doing anything underwater in Vashj'ir, and as such is easily obtained as a quest reward after completing a chain of introductory quests upon arriving at Лес Келп’тар. Unfortunately, this mount can only be used in Vashj'ir, so no cruise nights at the Fizzle and Pozzik's Speedbarge out in Тысяча Игл. :(

It's yet another recolored drake, that you'll have to spend IRL money on. This guy is available via code redemption from the (appropriately named) Mottled Drake loot card from the latest WoW Trading Card Game expansion, Worldbreaker. Not the most amazing of TCG mounts, to be perfectly honest, though it'll no doubt be substantially rare and it is pretty neat looking.

Комментарий от geneticfreak666

Well Worgan have a quest were you ride a horse and carriage as a vehicle. Why could the alliance not get that for a mount, that way its on part with goblin having a vehicle (car) and still in tune with the Victorian theme that is the Gilneans. Just my thought.

Комментарий от Zalinn

on 2010-12-15T18:27:10-06:00

I thought the Alliance had more before Cata, they had access to the frostsabers and Horde doesn't, so we get TRIKES!

Комментарий от Pwntiff

on 2010-12-15T18:36:29-06:00

I thought the Alliance had more before Cata, they had access to the frostsabers and Horde doesn't, so we get TRIKES!

Venomhide Ravasaur was re-added to equal out the Frostsabers.

Yes, Horde gets a new type of mount and Alliance doesn't. Get over it.

I swear if you guys turn this into another one of those "ZOMG x faction has more mounts so unfair!11" flamefests, I will turn this guide right around...

Комментарий от Docbones

on 2010-12-15T18:46:02-06:00

Reins of the Kor'kron Annihilator is SOO SEXY !

Комментарий от Simeraz

on 2010-12-15T19:05:56-06:00

even if the lion is cool I would preferred the scorpion but hey what you want

Комментарий от bowWOW2

on 2010-12-15T19:17:25-06:00

i want that lion mount so awsome also the scorpion is cool

Комментарий от bowWOW2

on 2010-12-15T19:45:19-06:00

also the Dark pheonix

Комментарий от Kargarath

on 2010-12-15T22:31:05-06:00

The horde get better mounts because the horde suck. The complain about everything. Just be happy that you are not a troll.

Комментарий от Pwntiff

on 2010-12-15T22:34:23-06:00

Honestly, 80% of "<Faction> is better than <Faction>" is really just six of one and a half dozen of another.

Комментарий от Kyojen

on 2010-12-15T22:51:24-06:00

The horde get better mounts because the horde suck. The complain about everything. Just be happy that you are not a troll.

Комментарий от Estoque

Well Worgan have a quest were you ride a horse and carriage as a vehicle. Why could the alliance not get that for a mount, that way its on part with goblin having a vehicle (car) and still in tune with the Victorian theme that is the Gilneans. Just my thought.

The horse and carriage would be killer! Great idea!

Комментарий от Matosawitko

on 2010-12-16T06:45:40-06:00

I swear if you guys turn this into another one of those "ZOMG x faction has more mounts so unfair!11" flamefests, I will turn this guide right around...

Miyari glares into the rear-view mirror. "Don't make me come back there!"

I'm still curious why they are adding so many high-level ground mounts, since it seems like most high-level characters are going to use a flying mount a significant majority of the time. Of course, I'm a druid so I use flight form most of the time. But when was the last time you saw a mammoth in Orgrimmar?

Комментарий от XB429

on 2010-12-16T07:05:48-06:00

I thought the Alliance had more before Cata, they had access to the frostsabers and Horde doesn't, so we get TRIKES!

The Horde had a raptor which was much easier to obtain than the frostsaber. I really hope there will be a way for the Alliance to get the trike through a raid boss or something, because I think most of the Horde mounts look better; especially the raptors.